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Stanford University Student SPIE Chapter Annual Report
February 2014 – January 2015
Officers
Co-President Marina Radulaski, [email protected], 3523598
Co-President Nikolas Tezak, [email protected], 3455567
Secretary Joshua Yoon, [email protected], 3601859
Treasurer Sage Doshay, [email protected]
Speaker Chair Saara Khan, [email protected], 3525410
Outreach Chair Adam Backer, [email protected], 3458250
Membership Chair Jerry Shi, [email protected], 3608063
Retreat Co-Chair Alex Diezmann, [email protected], 3530162
Retreat Co-Chair Stephen Wolf, [email protected], 3499730
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Young Professionals Networking Event
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
March 10, 2014
15 participants
We invited two young optics professionals in the Bay Area to join us for dinner and talk about their post graduate school experiences. Our guests of honor were Jason Pelc (Stanford PhD, HP Labs) and
Jung Park (UCSD PhD, Intel). The evening started with a reception where all of the attendees socialized in a large group, and then we split into two tables for dinner, one invited guest at each
table. Halfway through the meal, the guests switched tables.
Feedback from one graduate student attendee: “It was nice seeing that people in industry do
interesting research!” We received other positive feedback about how the low-key nature of the
event made it welcoming and how it was helpful taking to young professionals in general. Attendees also gave recommendations of other guests they would like to see, for future events. Examples include “the difference between managerial and technical paths in the same company” and “people
with optics PhDs who are now in a totally unrelated field such as consulting or law.”
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Happy Hour with Pizza
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
March 12, 2012
50 participants
As part of the ongoing happy hour series organized by our membership committee throughout the academic year, we hosted a pizza party at the end of the winter quarter. The event as all our happy hours primarily served to bring the photonics community together on a regular basis. We also promoted our upcoming retreat.
Additional happy hours over the year:
July 7, 2014
August 29, 2014
September 18, 2014
January 23, 2015
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Stanford University Photonics Retreat
Marconi Conference Center
Marshall, CA
April 4-6, 2014
79 participants
The sixth annual Stanford University Photonics Retreat (SUPR 2014) proved to be a great success, as were the previous five retreats. SUPR 2014 brought together sixty Stanford graduate
students and postdocs, nine Stanford faculty, and ten industry professionals for a weekend of science, networking, and career development. The student attendees came from eight departments, spanning 21 research groups. The faculty speakers included representatives from
Physics, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Structural Biology, and the d.school.
SUPR 2014 returned to the historic Marconi Conference Center, where Guglielmo Marconi built a wireless transmission station in 1913. The program started Friday evening with a welcome
reception and dinner. The keynote was given that night by professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, who discussed “Taking a Scientific Approach to Science Education.” Professor Wieman’s talk was followed by a poster session, where half of the attending students presented their research. Friday’s program was closed out by a late-night trivia game for the
students, where the teams had been assigned across research groups and departments, to
facilitate meeting new people, and fostering future collaborations.
After breakfast on Saturday morning, Assistant Professor Amir Safavi-Naeini discussed his
research on quantum opto-mechanics, and Research Professor Michel Digonnet discussed slow
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light in optical fibers. After a coffee break, the d.school’s Dave Evans conducted a professional development workshop called “Designing the Professional”. The workshop included both the
students and the faculty, and was an excellent opportunity for building relationships outside
the classroom.
Saturday afternoon was designated as free time. Many attendees took the opportunity to visit one of the local Tomales Bay oyster farms, or to visit the lighthouse at Point Reyes. After dinner, Agis Mesolongitis from the augmented reality startup Meta presented his company’s
head-mounted display, intended as a competitor to Google Glass. Following Agis’s talk, there
was a panel discussion between four photonics industry professionals on “Making Money with
Science”. The lively panel naturally transitioned to a late-night mixer, where many students
stayed to talk with the panelists (and each other) about startup culture and venture capital.
Sunday morning began with the final two faculty lectures. Assistant Professor Monika
Schleier-Smith discussed quantum squeezed states of light, and Assistant Professor Adam de la
Zerda presented research on optics for cancer detection. The talks were followed by a second
poster session, where students who had not presented on Friday had a chance to show off their research. SUPR 2014 concluded with a delicious lunch, where awards for the best research
posters were given.
As many SUPR participants have attested over the last six years, SUPR provides an invaluable
opportunity for graduate students who work with optics to make connections and learn new
skills outside of their own departments and research groups. SUPR helps to build connections, strengthen relationships with colleagues, and foster collaborations across disciplines. We are
already looking forward to our seventh annual retreat, to be held April 10-12, 2015 at the
Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California.
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Left: Professor Schleier-Smith, right: Professor Byer with students during the workshop
Poster session
Left: Professor Wieman, right: Demo of Meta’s augmented reality “Spaceglasses”
Left: Professor Digonnet, right: Dave Evans leading the workshop “designing the professional”
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Stanford Spring SPLASH
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
April 11-12, 2014
3 chapter members as instructors, 45 participants
We repeated our very successful and popular holography class and taught three classes of 15
students each. Students were asked ahead of time to bring a small object to be the motif of their holograms. The class started with a high-level explanation of light, waves, interference, photography, and
holography. Light interference was demonstrated by showing how to measure the width of a
human hair with a laser pointer. Then in small groups, students entered a makeshift dark
exposure room to develop their holograms, which they got to keep.
Stanford SPLASH is a biannual event that brings in middle and high school students from the
Bay Area to attend student-taught lectures on a broad variety of exciting topics.
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Bay Area Maker Faire
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
May 16-18, 2014
20 chapter member volunteers, 1000s of visitors
For the fourth year, we hosted a booth at the Bay Area Maker Faire, a weekend-long faire for artists, tinkerers and Do-It-Yourself-adherents. We brought two of our most proven large optical demos: The
Laser Maze and the laser harp.
For the first time, we were supported by National Instruments in the form of a special set of optics
based outreach demos, assembled at the Maker Faire by Glenn Manlongat. Among the demos was a
spinning Mr. Potato Head that is raster-scanned by a laser to produce a 3D representation on a
computer display.
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Special Visit with Dr. H. Philip Stahl
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
May 21, 2014
40 participants
On Wednesday, May 21, Dr. Stahl visited the Stanford campus for a brief tour of the James and Anna
Marie Spilker Engineering and Applied Science Building, a lunch seminar, and a meeting with the
Stanford Optical Society executive board.
Dr. Stahl’s seminar was titled “50 Years of NASA Mirror Technology Development,” which drew about 35 attendees and had audience members asking questions long after the official end of the event.
Afterward, Dr. Stahl met with the chairs of all four of the Stanford Optical Society’s committees to get an overview of our chapter’s activities. We discussed some plans for the International Year of Light, as well as how SPIE and our student chapter can help each other.
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Elections
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
May 23, 2014
25 participants
We held elections for the 2014-2015 Executive Board. A pizza lunch was provided.
2013-2014 Executive Planning Team
President (SPIE Affairs): Nikolas Tezak (Mabuchi Group) President (OSA Affairs): Marina Radulaski (Vuckovic Group) SUPR Co-Chairs: Stephen Wolf (Byer Group), Alex Diezmann (Moerner Group) Secretary: Joshua Yoon (Moerner Group) Treasurer: Sage Doshay (J. Fan Group) Speaker Chair: Saara Khan (Ellerbee Group) Membership Co-Chairs: Jerry Shi (S. Fan Group) and Joe Landry (Solgaard Group) Outreach Co-Chairs: Adam Backer (Moerner Group), Ken Leedle (Harris Group) and Linda Zhang (Vuckovic Group)
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NightLife at the California Academy of Science
California Academy of Science, San Francisco, CA
July 7, 2014
13 participants
We attended the special Chinese New Year NightLife event at the California Academy of Sciences. It was a social event in a scientific setting.
http://www.calacademy.org/events/nightlife/
SUPR Reunion BBQ
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
July 25, 2014
60 participants
We organized a BBQ during the summer quarter for everyone who went to the previous SUPR
retreat. We figured that it had been over three months since SUPR happened, so we would like
to organize an event to have everyone catch up a bit. We used the grill in the Allen patio, and
we cooked around 60 burgers and 50 sausages for the ~60 people that showed up. This event was a huge success, because we had a wonderful turnout, and it seems that everyone really
enjoyed a break where they get to catch up with people that they met at SUPR.
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Information Booth at New Student Orientation
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
September 18, 2014
Attended by incoming class of Stanford graduate students
At the beginning of autumn quarter when new students are going through orientation, we set up a booth to tell everyone about our chapter and all the social, outreach, and speakers events
that we host, as well as advertise the SUPR retreat that will take place in April 2015. The goal is to increase the visibility of our group at Stanford, and to have new students interested in optics sign up for our mailing list so that they can participate in the optics-related events that we host. A similar booth was set up at the Engineering Student Service Fair, on October 8, 2014, which
was targeted specifically at incoming graduate students in engineering.
Welcome Back BBQ
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
October 17, 2014
60 participants
Four weeks into fall quarter, we organized a welcome back BBQ event in Allen Patio. We
thought it was a good opportunity for our members to take a break during the middle of the
quarter and catch up with each other. As always, we took this opportunity to introduce our activities to new members, and we advertised the retreat (SUPR) to everyone that had not heard of it.
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Laser Khet Tournament
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
November 21, 2014
10 participants
Right before Thanksgiving break, we organized a Laser Khet Tournament for students to
stimulate the minds of optics student with a device containing stimulated emission. Laser Khet is a laser based, prize-winning, chess-inspired board game that we use for our outreach events. We first introduced it to our student members at SUPR 2014 and its popularity there inspired us to organize this social event. The winner of the event walked away with a brand new Laser Khet set!
Stanford Fall SPLASH
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
April 11-12, 2014
3 chapter members as instructors, 45 participants
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For the fall version of SPLASH, our SPIE chapter again offered the proven holography class, but also developed a new microscopy class aimed at middle/ high-school students as part of our ongoing outreach activity offerings.
Our microscopy class dealt with the basics of ray-based optics, and the fundamental features of lenses, such as focal length and f-number. Students learned how to use a portable laboratory
microscope, and inspect biological specimens such as leaves, fruit skins and insects. Students also had the opportunity to use microscope lens adapters designed for iPhones, and were given
their own Foldscopes (see www.foldscope.com) – pocket-size microscopes costing less than 1
USD provided by the Prakash lab at Stanford.
Left: Hologram Exposure, right: Successful holographers presenting their holograms
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Careers in Optics Panel + Professional Photoshoot
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
September 10, 2014
3 panelists + 40 participants
To prepare optics graduate students and postdocs for their future job search, the Stanford
Optical Society organized the Careers in Optics Panel, followed by a professional photoshoot. The panelists were professionals from HP Labs, Sandia Labs and Corning Inc. who actively
participate in the hiring process for optics related positions. The discussion consisted of a
facilitated Q&A session and two sample CV analyses, which provided the 40 participants with
concrete and field-specific career advice. After the panel, many participants made use of the
opportunity to take a signature photo on Stanford’s Main Quad, to use for their CV and
LinkedIn profiles.
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Networking Trip to NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA
October 24, 2014
17 participants
Our members had the opportunity to visit NASA Ames research center. We spent a total of five
hours on the campus; touring the wind tunnel facilities and labs, the NASA Supercomputing
Facility and had a meet and greet with NASA scientists and engineers. Dr. David Blake's (the
lead developer of the CheMin instrument) gave us a tour of his lab. Afterwards we went to
Amarin Thai Cuisine for dinner and a reception with three NASA scientists.
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Bay Area Science Festival 2014 - Discovery Days
AT&T Park, San Francisco, CA
November 1, 2014
10,000s of participants
As in past years, we participated in the Bay Area Scicence Festival (BASF) Discovery Days at AT&T Park. We brought a variety of fun, hands-on optics demonstrations, including our laser harp, materials illustrating the concept of polarization, birefringence, the theory behind
rainbows, and waveguiding of light by water stream. Our presence at the event had a large
public exposure, reaching an audience of up to 30,000 people, many of whom children. As in
recent years, the organizers of the BASF were very successful at attracting Bay Area families from all socioeconomic backgrounds which extended our reach to parts of the Bay Area
community that are often underrepresented at other events. More information about the BASF can be found at http://www.bayareascience.org/.
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Navigating Optics Coursework at Stanford
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
November 19, 2014
25 participants
In order to empower junior graduate students to take the most advantage of optical courses offered across all departments, we hosted a panel on Navigating Optics Coursework at Stanford, which was attended by around 25 students. The panelists were three students and
two postdocs from the Departments of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, who had
taken over 20 different optics related courses and are pursuing various directions in their research.
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Seminar Series
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
40 participants at each seminar
The Speaker Committee organizes a variety of technical talks for the optics community. Most seminars are held on campus in the Science and Engineering Quad. We try to invite speakers
from a mix of academia, industry, and national labs.
For talk summaries and a list of future seminars, please see our website at http://photons.stanford.edu/seminars.
Date and Time Speaker Title
Friday, Feb 7 Prof. Andrea Alu (University of Texas at Austin)
Metamaterials and Plasmonics to Tailor and Enhance Wave-Matter Interactions
Monday, Feb 10 Prof. Chris Davis (University of Maryland)
Informal talk with students
Monday, Feb 10 Prof. Chris Davis (University of Maryland)
The Effects of the Atmosphere on Light and on Propagating Laser Beams
Wednesday, Feb 19 Prof. Joerg Bewersdorf (Yale University)
Advances in Optical Nanoscopy of Living Cells
Monday, Feb 24 Prof. Holger Schmidt (UC Santa Cruz)
Optofluidics: The Photonic Integration of Non-Solid Media
Monday, Mar 3 Prof. Bahram Jalali (UCLA) Anamorphic Stretch Transform; Analog and Digital Compression of Big Data
Monday, Mar 10 Dr. Charles Santori (HP Labs) Integrated Optics for Computing and Sensing
Thursday, March 13 Dr. Paul Juodawalkis (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Slab-Coupled Optical Waveguide (SCOW) Devices and Their Applications
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Thursday, Mar 27 Donn Silberman & Jeff Gabriel (Physik Instrumente)
Micro and nano positioning for microscopy and research systems
Thursday, May 15 Peter Kozodoy Glint Photonics, Inc.
Microscale Liquid Manipulation for Solar Concentrators
Thursday, May 29 Anna Wang & Rick Sebastian (Newport)
Optical Specifications Basics,Design, Testing and Use of mirror mounts
Friday, June 13 Chris Phillips ETH Zurich
Mid-infrared optical parametric chirped pulse amplification via engineered quasi-phase-matching devices
Thursday, Oct 30 Laura Waller UC Berkeley Dept of EECS
Computational illumination for high-resolution 3D phase microscopy
Wednesday, November 5
Eric Montgomery University of Maryland, ECE
Photocathodes for Free Electron Lasers
Thursday, January 8, 2015
H. Volkan Demir
Bilkent University, Turkey & Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
Nanocrystal Quantum Dots - Physics and Optoelectronic Applications
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
John Denniston Kleiner-Perkins CB
Cleantech investing
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Finances
Chapter Expenses Board meeting coffee -$19.95
Membership Events Summer BBQ -$408.83
Recruitment Breakfast -$181.49
California Academy of Sciences Nightlife -$165.25
Quals Mixer -$24.98
Happy Hours -$374.67
NASA Ames Visit and Networking Dinner -$745.43
Pizza Party -$296.43
Welcome BBQ -$312.52
Audio speakers for social events -$125.00
Outreach
Maker Faire -$834.57
Laser Maze parts -$10.22
Bay Area Science Festival -$24.51
SPLASH -$179.95
Grant Writing Workshop -$150.89
Laser Khet game -$32.05
Seminars -$491.65
Career Panel -$56.35
Deposits SPIE Grants $1,300
OSA Grants $1,000
School of Engineering $2,500
Starting balance $5797.92
Net expenses -$4434.74
Net inflow $4800.00
Ending balance $6163.18
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Member roster
Name Expires
Christy Amwake 9 February 2015
Sercan Arik 21 January 2016
Arushi Arora 10 February 2016
Sid Assawaworrarit 22 January 2016
Xuan Cao 27 December 2015
Andrew Ceballos 20 May 2016
Julie Chang 22 January 2016
Robert Chen 1 March 2015
Sage Doshay 6 October 2015
Kirk Ingold 14 October 2015
Cathy Jan 14 August 2015
Isaac Kauvar 21 February 2015
Yousif Kelaita 21 February 2015
Sandra Kjono 4 February 2016
Gary Lee 19 January 2016
Maurice Lee 13 February 2015
Matthew Lew 4 December 2015
Orly Liba 13 December 2015
Qian Lin 13 February 2015
Kristen Lurie 13 January 2016
Tahereh Marvdashti 16 February 2015
Sonya Mollinger 17 February 2015
Therice Morris 11 February 2016
Michael Pieroni 5 December 2015
Jessica Piper 4 January 2016
Marina Radulaski 2 February 2015
Christopher Rogers 13 February 2015
Hardeep Sanghera 12 February 2015
Andrew Scheuermann 8 February 2015
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David Sell 1 October 2015
Colleen Shang 19 January 2016
Yu Shi 20 February 2015
Matthew Sieth 5 June 2015
Joseph Singh 18 February 2015
Tamara Sopek 9 November 2015
Ray Sun 22 February 2015
Emel Tasyurek 5 January 2016
Nikolas Tezak 7 February 2016
Maryann Tung 11 February 2015
Jenny Wang 20 January 2016
Eric Wei 19 February 2015
Stephen Wolf 26 September 2015
He Yi 2 February 2015
Joshua Yoon 5 February 2015
Livia Zarnescu 12 February 2015
Xin Zhou 11 January 2016
Alumni Member Roster
Name Graduation Date
Dirk Englund (not available)
Peter Catrysse (not available)
Jonathan Liu (not available)
Michelle Povinelli (not available)
Hatice Altug Jan 2010
Yang Wang Sep 2007
Jan Bogdanski Apr 2009
Andrei Faraon Sep 2009
Paulina Kuo Sep 2008
Linyong Pang Jun 2000
Yannis Paulus Jun 2009
Zongfu Yu Sep 2009
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Young Chul Jun Jan 2011
Matthew Terrel May 2011
Mohammad Hendijanifard Dec 2010
Thomas O'Sullivan Jan 2011
Christopher Sramek Jun 2010
Sarah Bohndiek Aug 2013
Jie Li Aug 2006
Jason Pelc Jun 2012
Lieven Verslegers Jan 2012
Tianhua Xu Jun 2012
Charles Rudy Sep 2013
Adam Wang Apr 2012
Salil Soman Sep 2020
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